build a website in an hour/organizing

Build a Website in an Hour Organizing follows all of the standard IndieWeb organizing principles. This page lists a few additional pieces of information useful in organizing a website in an hour event.

Meeting Agenda

Introduction to the event
Attendee introductions
- If there are more than 10 participants, this step may be skipped, but encourage people to share their websites / an intro in an Etherpad for the event
One hour to build websites
~30 minutes to allow participants to showcase what they made
- Sharing what one has made is optional but encouraged!

Introduction

Before the event, provide a written blurb to participants that explains what will happen in the event. An example from the first event is below (you can copy this verbatim if you want for use in your event!).

Welcome to the "Build a Website in an Hour" event! In this event, you are challenged to create a website from scratch in an hour. At the start of the meeting, we will do a round of introductions, then we will put one hour on the clock in which we can all build a website.

Use this time as an opportunity to exercise your creativity muscles. Build whatever interests you!

You can use whatever technologies (and frameworks) you want, but you cannot work on an existing project. You have to start from scratch and build what you make in the hour. You can re-use work from projects you have made before.

You don't have to write any code! We encourage you to use a tool like WordPress, micro.blog, or another website builder if you want to set up a website without code.

After the hour is up, we will share what we have built with each other. Everyone will have a few minutes to present their website. The exact time will vary depending on how many participants we have.

Don't have an idea yet? Here are a few to help inspire you:

* Create a blog
* Build a web page on a topic you are passionate about
* Create instructions on how to do something (make a cake, build a website)
* Make a game with JavaScript
* Create an animation with CSS
* Create a tool for displaying microformats data on a page

Need help getting started? Here are a few resources to help you out:

* Blank IndieWeb website: https://github.com/indieweb/blank-gh-site
* Wordpress: https://wordpress.com
* micro.blog: https://micro.blog
* IndieWeb wiki: https://indieweb.org (good for reference if you know what you are looking for)
* add anything else here you think will help someone else!

Meeting Agenda

Introduction

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